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Special Tours
The Visitors Resource Center can provide specialized tours for group visits. These visitations are arranged around specific requests from a contact person. Schools from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland bring elementary, middle school, and high school students to visit West Virginia University. Alumni and senior citizens also often want to see the WVU campus.

Listed below are a few examples of what the Visitors Resource Center can offer as specialized tours:

• A tour of the West Virginia University campuses – Downtown, Evansdale, and Health Sciences. Groups can visit a classroom, laboratory facilities, the WVU student union, and/or the Downtown Library Complex. Open to all age groups.
  
• Take a full-loop ride on the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) – a transportation system that is unique to WVU. Students use the PRT to travel between the WVU campuses in Morgantown, WV. Open to all age groups.
  
• Visit Mountaineer Field – home of the Mountaineer football team. Tour the public areas of the Milan Puskar Center, including the recently completed Hall of Traditions, and visit the playing surface if the facility schedule permits. Open to all age groups.
  
• Visit the WVU Coliseum – home of Mountaineer basketball, wrestling, gymnastics, and volleyball. The Coliseum also houses the Athletic Department and School of Physical Education. Individuals can visit the public areas, sit in the stands, and view the court surface. Open to all age groups.
  
• Tour the Evansdale Residential Complex (ERC) and a model residence hall room – this is a facility where WVU students reside on campus. The ERC (a.k.a. Towers) is made up of four interconnecting residence halls. The tour includes a visit to a model residence room. Open to all age groups–space available to tour model dorm room is comfortable at 20 to 25 persons.
  
• Admissions and Financial Aid presentations can be arranged. Appropriate for eighth grade or older and for any group size.
  
• Presentations that can be arranged include:
  
  • Challenge X – a presentation on current research on increasing fuel efficiency. Students will view a vehicle and learn about the alterations made to it in order to make it more fuel-efficient. Appropriate for grades 5-12 and available to groups of any size.
    
  • Wind Tunnel –
    
  • Planetarium – an audiovisual session in the Tomchin Planetarium focuses on the study of astronomy. Open to all age groups. Space availability limited to 29.
    
  • U-92 – tour WVU’s radio station Open to all ages but limited to 10 to 12 persons.
    
  • Daily Athenaeum – tour WVU’s student newspaper. See how students arrange the paper for publication. Open to all ages but limited to 25 to 35 persons
    
    
  • WVU Farm Experience - tour the WVU Farm and learn about farm animals through first hand experiences. Open to all age groups and sizes.

Other presentations and/or campus sites can be added to this list, depending on the interest of the group, availability of the facility, and availability of campus experts to lead the sessions.

Although we cannot guarantee the availability of a specific session when initially scheduling a group visit, we will make every effort to fulfill your request.

Please contact Susan Petsko at 304-293-3489 to request/schedule a specialized tour of West Virginia University.